Problem with absolute symbolic links

[Kevin Minder]

I'm trying to synchronize a particularly troublesome directory structure on a SunOS box to a PC.  I really want all symbolic links resolved to real files on the PC when everything is done.  I can't seem to find any combination of parameters that will accomplish this.

It boils down to two problems.
1.  It seems like that even if I exclude a symbolic link that is a directory it is not excluded.
2.  It seems like copy-links and copy-unsafe-links don't work for symbolic links to directories outside the source tree.

Is this the correct behavior or am I doing something wrong.
Any input is greatly appreciated.

Here is my rsyncd.conf file...
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motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
uid = kminder
gid = svrtech

[test]
path = /home/kminder/rsync/test
comment = test
read only = yes
list = yes
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Below is a simplified source structure on the unix side (source).  
Note the .rel symlink and the .abs symlink.

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/home/kminder/rsync> ls -al outside test
outside:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   2 kminder  g904        4096 Dec 13 11:37 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 kminder  g904        4096 Dec 13 11:29 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 kminder  g904          15 Dec 13 11:37 file

test:
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   3 kminder  g904        4096 Dec 13 11:36 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 kminder  g904        4096 Dec 13 11:29 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kminder  g904          27 Dec 13 11:36 .abs -> /home/kminder/rsync/outside
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kminder  g904           3 Dec 13 11:34 .rel -> dir
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kminder  g904           9 Dec 13 11:36 absfile -> .abs/file
drwxr-xr-x   2 kminder  g904        4096 Dec 13 11:34 dir
-rw-r--r--   1 kminder  g904          10 Dec 13 11:32 file
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kminder  g904           4 Dec 13 11:33 link -> file
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kminder  g904           4 Dec 13 11:33 linklink -> link
lrwxrwxrwx   1 kminder  g904           9 Dec 13 11:35 relfile -> .rel/file
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I'm trying for the following structure on the pc (cygwin ls -al).  
Note that all links should be resolved.  
I want the duplicate files.

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drwxr-xr-x+   4 kminder  None         4096 Dec 13 11:36 .
drwxrwxrwx+  14 Administ Administ     8192 Dec 13 11:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x+   2 kminder  None            0 Dec 13 11:34 dir
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           10 Dec 13 11:32 file
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           10 Dec 13 11:32 link
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           10 Dec 13 11:32 linklink
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           14 Dec 13 11:34 relfile
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           14 Dec 13 11:34 absfile
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When I execute the command that I think should accomplish this...
D:\sync>rsync -rptgDvP --port=34343 --copy-links --copy-unsafe-links --exclude .rel --exclude .abs kminder at usunnbd25::test d:\sync
The resulting output follows...

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receiving file list ...
readlink absfile: No such file or directory
7 files to consider
./
dir/
dir/file
          14 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
file
          10 100%    9.77kB/s    0:00:00
link
          10 100%    9.77kB/s    0:00:00
linklink
          10 100%    9.77kB/s    0:00:00
relfile
          14 100%   13.67kB/s    0:00:00
wrote 190 bytes  read 465 bytes  187.14 bytes/sec
total size is 58  speedup is 0.09
rsync error: partial transfer (code D:\sync>dir23) at /tmp/rsync-2.5.5/main.c(926)
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My disk ends up looking as follows.  Again using cygwin ls -al.

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drwxr-xr-x+   4 kminder  None         4096 Dec 13 11:36 .
drwxrwxrwx+  14 Administ Administ     8192 Dec 13 11:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x+   2 kminder  None            0 Dec 13 11:34 .rel
drwxr-xr-x+   2 kminder  None            0 Dec 13 11:34 dir
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           10 Dec 13 11:32 file
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           10 Dec 13 11:32 link
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           10 Dec 13 11:32 linklink
-rw-r--r--    1 kminder  None           14 Dec 13 11:34 relfile
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If I do it without the excludes like this...
rsync -rptgDvP --port=34343 --copy-links --copy-unsafe-links kminder at usunnbd25::test d:/sync
The output is this...

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receiving file list ...
readlink .abs: No such file or directory
readlink absfile: No such file or directory
9 files to consider
./
dir/
dir/file
          14 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
file
          10 100%    9.77kB/s    0:00:00
link
          10 100%    9.77kB/s    0:00:00
linklink
          10 100%    9.77kB/s    0:00:00
relfile
          14 100%   13.67kB/s    0:00:00
wrote 174 bytes  read 540 bytes  204.00 bytes/sec
total size is 72  speedup is 0.10
rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at /tmp/rsync-2.5.5/main.c(926)
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My PC filesystem looks the same as it did above.